Real estate notes blog


Agent Real Mail delivery agent

Posted in Uncategorized by admin on the January 31st, 2008

A Mail Delivery Agent (MDA) is software that accepts incoming e-mail messages and distributes them to recipients’ individual mailboxes (if the destination account is on the local machine), or forwards to another SMTP server (if the destination is on a remote server).

A mail delivery agent is not necessarily a mail transfer agent (MTA), although on many systems the two functions are implemented by the same program.

On Unix systems, procmail and maildrop are the most popular MDAs. LMTP is a protocol that is frequently implemented by network-aware MDAs.


See also

  • mail user agent (MUA)

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.